Single Idea 18272

[catalogued under 12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 11. Denying the A Priori]

Full Idea

The trouble with Platonism had always been its inability to define a priori knowledge in a way that made it possible for human beings to have it.

Gist of Idea

Platonism defines the a priori in a way that makes it unknowable

Source

J. Alberto Coffa (The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap [1991], 7 'What')

Book Reference

Coffa,J.Alberto: 'The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap' [CUP 1993], p.126


A Reaction

This is the famous argument of Benacerraf 1973.